The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan – A Cold Case Investigation – is a newly published book on the research a team undertook for 6 years, to discover what happened to Anne Frank, and one of the team was a retired FBI agent.…
I find medicine, especially in a historical context, fascinating. So I was keen on reading Greco-Roman Medicine and What It Can Teach Us Today by Nick Summerton* which is a book that did not disappoint at all. I gave it a very well deserved 5…
This time last year I was starting a module on the Spanish Civil War and I enjoyed it a lot, hence I’m still reading books such as The Spanish Civil War at Sea by Michael Alpert* – Dark and Dangerous Waters – months after I…
Himmler’s Death Squad by Ian Baxter* – Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939–1944 contains rare photographs from wartime archives. This is a photograph-based book, very much like another book by him that I reviewed recently on Concentration Camp Overseers. This book is filled with horrifying images, but…
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner – A family’s story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall – was recommended by Kelly. I thank her for telling me about this wonderful book. I loved it, it is such a heartbreaking but beautiful…
The Forgotten German Genocide by Peter C Brown* is an analysis of the Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945–50, as the subtitle describes. The book is very well structured. It starts with details on the Final Solution, how the euthanasia programme started and the gas…
Philip, Prince of Greece by John Carr, Constantinos Lagos* has the subtitle The Duke of Edinburgh’s Early Life and the Greek Succession. Today would have been Prince Philip’s 100th birthday and so I mark this occasion by sharing my thoughts on this book, published very…
I read The Spanish Civil War by Helen Graham – A Very Short Introduction – for revision. It is a short book, perfect size to remember what I studied a few months ago. That is before I went deeper into the notes I made and…
Armies of the Thracians and Dacians by Gabriele Esposito* is the first book on ancient history I read in a long time and I’m so glad I did. I gave it a very well deserved 4.5 stars and I took half of star off because…
Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers by Ian Baxter* – Sonderkommandos, Kapos & Trawniki – Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives is a must read for everybody. It’s a fantastic book with clearly presented details and horrifying pictures. The difference between the Nazi and Trawniki (collaborators) smiling at…
Free Women of Spain by Martha Ackelsberg – Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women – is a book I read for my studies regarding the Spanish civil war, but this book is focused on anarchism as a movement and less so on…
Milicianas by Lisa Margaret Lines – Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War. It was a very good book, short, but filled with fascinating details. It wasn’t perfect, hence my 4 stars. Even so, the book is worth reading for many reasons. At the…
Memories of Resistance by Shirley Mangini González – Women’s Voices from the Spanish Civil War – is another book I read for my studies. Well, the book promised a lot, with lots of quotes from biographies, letters, diaries, and oral testimonies. It was a huge…
I had high expectations from Forgotten Slave Trade by Simon Webb* – The White European Slaves of Islam – but I had no idea how amazingly interesting it is. If you read only one non-fiction book this year, make it this one. What this book…
Women and Spanish Fascism by Kathleen Richmond – The Women’s Section of the Falange, 1934-59 is a short but really interesting book on fascist women in the war. She took a lot of interviews and presents them in an unbiased way. I really enjoyed reading…
I had the Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall on my to-read list for a while. I saw the review for it on Kelly’s blog, I’ve decided to reserve the book at the library. The subtitle of the book is Ten Maps That Tell You…